Historic New England

Decoys of the Newburys, Plum Island and Surrounding Communities :catalog of an exhibition at the Cushing House Museum, Newburyport, Massachusetts /Jay S. Williamson.

60 p.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Williamson, Jay S. Historical Society of Old Newbury (Newburyport, Mass.)

GUSN: 283438

Call Number: Coll. NK4890.5 W55 1999

A taste of history :a sampling from Schlesinger Library's culinary collections : an exhibition in conjunction with the conference "Women, Men, and Food: Putting Gender on the Table," sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 12-13, 2007.

49 p.

Date: 2007.]

Creators: Altieri, Marylene. Earle, Susan. Hutcheon, Sarah. Morgan, Marilyn. Wheaton, Barbara K. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

GUSN: 283439

Call Number: Coll. TX645.T37 A78 2007

Portsmouth and the Piscataqua /by Peter E. Randall.

88 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Randall, Peter, 1940-

GUSN: 283749

Call Number: Stacks F44.P8 R36 1982

Towards world heritage :international origins of the preservation movement, 1870-1930 /edited by Melanie Hall.

xx, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm., "Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is however surprisingly little understanding about how it took place, and research into it is narrowly focused. For example, g...

Date: c2011.

Creators: Hall, Melanie.

GUSN: 283750

Call Number: 85M Stacks G140.5.T69 2011

Collecting history /Massachusetts Historical Society.

88 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2009.

Creators: McCullough, David G. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 283751

Call Number: Stacks F61.C655 2009

Sherborn, Massachusetts :images of the past.

v. : ill., map ; 24 X 26 cm.

Date: c1999-

Creators: Sherborn Historical Society. Sherborn (Mass.). 325th Anniversary Celebration Committee.

GUSN: 283752

Call Number: Stacks F74.S55 S55 1999

Elisha Jones House and Shed :historic structure report /by James J. Lee III.

xv, 207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Lee, James J., III. Historic Architecture Program (United States. National Park Service. Northeast Region)

GUSN: 283753

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 L44 2007

From Portland to Paris :Mildred Burrage's years in France /[edited by Lucie G. Teegarden].

95 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983. Teegarden, Lucie T. Portland Museum of Art.

GUSN: 283754

Call Number: Stacks N6490.B877 2012

Farms of cape cod :lavender, horses, vineyards, oysters, flowers, cranberries, and the farmers who raise them /by Stephanie Foster.

144p. 22cm.

Date: 2013

Creators: Foster, Stephanie

GUSN: 283755

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 F37 2013

The Newport naval training station :a postcard history /by Federico Santi.

79p. 22cm.

Date: 2013

Creators: Santi, Federico

GUSN: 283756

Call Number: Stacks V434.N49 S26 2013

General catalog /Wallace Nutting.

160, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1984ò

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 283895

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.N87 A4

Historical and locational aspects of the economic decline in the New England furniture industry[microform].

xvii, 466 p.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Wickman, Kenneth Paul, 1930-

GUSN: 283896

Call Number: Coll. TS805.W53 1962

Information: the hidden resource :museums and the internet : proceedings of the seventh International Conference of the MDA held in Edinburgh, Scotland 6-7 November 1995 /edited by Anne Fahy and Wendy Sudbury.

various pagings : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Fahy, Anne, 1960- Sudbury, Wendy. Museum Documentation Association. Conference (7th : 1995 : Edinburgh) Museum Documentation Association (Great Britain)

GUSN: 283897

Call Number: Coll. AM125.M87 1995 (and 1 more)

Training for collections care and maintenance :a suggested curriculum.Volume 1,Archaeology and ethnology.

103 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (U.S.) Arizona State Museum. Bay Foundation.

GUSN: 283898

Call Number: Coll. AM141.T73 1990

Care and handling manual.

43 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1985]

Creators: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Conservation Section.

GUSN: 283899

Call Number: Coll. AM141.C37 1985

An Annotated bibliography for the development and operation of historic sites /prepared by the Historic Sites Committee of the AAM.

48 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1982]

Creators: American Association of Museums. Historic Sites Committee.

GUSN: 283900

Call Number: Coll. Z5940.A55 1982 (and 1 more)

Preprints index :cumulative index of papers presented at the 4th through the 16th annual meetings, 1976-88 /American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

37 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Rosenberg, Sarah Z. Anderson, Marcia M., 1961- Dilworth, Robert A. Lambrou, John G. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

GUSN: 283901

Call Number: Coll. Z6293.A512 1990

Soap Dish

Redware soapdish, small and round with rounded sides and a flat outflared rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks throughout. Part of a toiletry set.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 3131

Accession Number: 1991.1631

Cup

a redware cup, of cylindrical form with out-turned rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks. Part of a toiletry set.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 3132

Accession Number: 1991.1632

Hand Mirror

A hand mirror of hand carved pine in odd triangular form, made to fit a long broken piece of mirrored glass, held in with metal pins, with tapered handle and a round knob at the end.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), metal, mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 3133

Accession Number: 1991.1633

Comb

Baleen comb, flat and carved into the shape of a whale, with an upturned tail for a handle, teeth at the head/torso area and two incised lines around the teeth.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: baleen, carving (processes), incising

GUSN: 3134

Accession Number: 1991.1634

Sliding Candlestand

An octangonal candle cup on a long sliding, rectangular stem, flauted by two rectangular posts. It is raised on a heavy, slant-sided base with 3-peg feet. All are painted red.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3135

Accession Number: 1991.1635

Hair Comb

Tortise shell (or horn) hair comb, medium-large rounded-back form, its top a plain two inch panel with straight top, above a series of long narrow teeth (some missing).

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), molding (forming), tortoise shell

GUSN: 3136

Accession Number: 1991.1637

Bedpan

Round bedpan with a wide lip and nozzle end, covered with an orange glaze and bown splotches.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware

GUSN: 3137

Accession Number: 1991.1640

Windsor Stool

Round top with a padded, hooked seat with worked in wool yarns, with a red and green floral spig at the center on a tan ground enclosed by green leaf-shaped devices, and green wool fringe. It is raised on four splayed rod-turned legs joined by box stretches and grain painted in red and black. The se...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), graining, hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3138

Accession Number: 1991.1642

Desk on Frame

Desk on frame. Pine with original cart blue paint. Top has fall front with six pigeon holes and open spaces below. Base has no drawer, chamfered legs with no turnings, and plain stretchers. In two sections; hinged thumb molded slant top box opening.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3139

Accession Number: 1991.1643

Carved Wooden Box

A slightly domed hinged lid on a conforming box, a carved surface (except the back), the top of the lid is carved with quarter circles centering the inscription. The sides are carved with a diamond pattern centering a heart at the front keyhole and six pointed stars at the ends; the heart and stars ...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3140

Accession Number: 1991.1644

Marine Sandglass

Maritime hour glass with reversible case/wall bracket. Half-hour measure; used to determine ship's speed in knots.

Date: 1730-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), glass (material), sand

GUSN: 3141

Accession Number: 1991.1645

Rug

Rectangular hooked rug with a green oval on a blue field; scrolls in the corners; abstract flowers worked in blue, pink, red, and green in the center.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3142

Accession Number: 1991.1646

Rug

Rectangular form with centered polychrome stylized floral heads enclosed by 4 oak leaves and within a red, green, pink flower sprig and leafy border, all on a vauegated tan gound of green and brown.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3143

Accession Number: 1991.1647

Chair

Turned back posts with modified mushroom finials joined by three arched slats (one slat below seat). Rounded front posts and a trapezoidal shaped seat; three red-turned stretchers front and sides, two red-turned stretchers at the back, painted red. A woven string seat.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), string (fiber product), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 3144

Accession Number: 1991.1648

Carved Head

A small head standing on squared base, all carved from one piece of wood (2 carvings were made from this piece of wood 1991.1650). Long face, prominant features, eyeballs colored to accentuate the eyes, mouth and nostrils are incised. Surfaces appear dark with age. Face has been painted red, eyes an...

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), pine (wood), whittling

GUSN: 3145

Accession Number: 1991.1649

Canada Goose

Carved and painted decoy representing a goose, of the "Loomer" type, in a swimming position; with a brown back, and black tail, head and underbelly.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3146

Accession Number: 1991.1651

Writing-Arm Windsor Rocking Chair

Windsor style writing-arm chair, supported on an integrant end of the seat. Black spindles terminate in a straight crest rail. Under the writing arm are three small drawers one above the other, and one long narrow drawer at the front most edge. There is evidence that there was once a long drawer ben...

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: maple (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3147

Accession Number: 1991.1212

Watch Case

An inlaid mahogony watch case, of clock-face shape with arched base. The demi-lune top is edged with brass above thin strips of bone outline conforming to the shape of the bone diamond-shaped inlay, with four round inlaid pieces of ebony at each corner. An open round center reveals the watch, where,...

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), brass (alloy), cutting (dividing), ebony (wood), inlay (process), mahogany (wood), nailing

GUSN: 3148

Accession Number: 1991.1219

Pocket Watch

Silverplate pocketwatch, round with a ring at the top. White face with large black Roman numerals, blue hands, a seconds dial above 6 o'clock, and gold works with a makers mark. It has a glass front and a wind-up on the back.

Date: 1850-1899

Maker: A.W. Co. (Maker)

Material: glass (material), gold (metal), silver (metal), plate (material)

GUSN: 3149

Accession Number: 1991.1220

Mug

Silver-mounted coconut shell in the form of a cream pot.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), coconut (fruit), silver (metal)

GUSN: 3150

Accession Number: 1991.1381

Decorated Door Panel

Pair of paint-decorated door panels; one depicts church building ina landscape setting; the other depicts two trees in a landscape.

Date: 1775-1779

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), panels (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3151

Accession Number: 1991.1589.1-2

Dulcimer

Trapezoidal body of pine. Three sets of sound holes in top. Twenty-eight hand-forged iron tuning pins at one end and twenty-eight small iron hitch pins at opposite end.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes), iron (metal), nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 3152

Accession Number: 1991.1641

Handwritten History

No description

Date: 1920

Maker: Angell, Frank C. (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 3153

Accession Number: 1991.769

Relief Montage

Rectangular format montage of a three-masted ship carved and applied to a wooden background that is painted blue. The sails are in high relief. Small figures are painted on the bowsprit, in the rigging, and on the crow's nest. There are two boats on deck. It is in a flat, rectangular, veneered frame...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), leather, painting (coating)

GUSN: 3154

Accession Number: 1991.824

Toy Village

Carved wooden village; buildings, trees, male and female figures; painted.

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), carving (processes)

GUSN: 3155

Accession Number: 1991.847

Picture, Carved

Rectangular wood panel painted with sky, ocean and breakers with applied dick in flight carved in 3/4 round and realistically painted in brown, yellow and red.

Date: 1890-1895

Maker: Folger, James Walter (Maker)

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 3156

Accession Number: 1991.848

Carving

A small oval plaque carved in relief. A man with hair in queue and Revolutionary uniform. Original paint in yellow, blue, red and black. There are also crude floral sprays carved on the back.

Date: 1780-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3157

Accession Number: 1991.893.1

Vitrine

A grand, six pane rectangular cover with molded muntin(?)s hinged to a slanted rectangular, dovetailed case. It is painted blue-grey.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3158

Accession Number: 1991.947

Stick-Up Decoy

One of ten "flatties", silhouetted frames of "yellowlegs" with carved bills and forked tails, painted with brown backs, heads spotted with cream, cream breasts and necks, black bills and eyes; drilled with holes at underside. All contained in Box 1991.772.11, with their original sticks.

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3159

Accession Number: 1991.772.1

Decoy Box

Painted dark brown with stamped metal figure of Jumbo the Elephant on hinged lid; fitted with two compartments: narrow one for sticks, larger one for decoys [see 1991.772.1-10]; leather straps nailed to two exterior sides. [Rest of strap, 1991.772.12, formerly a shoulder strap, is inside box].

Date: 1875-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3160

Accession Number: 1991.772.11

Haystack Measure

Pewter gill (1/2 pt.) measure of small baluster shape and straight collar with run-to-shoulder handle terminating in ball, incised band to body, stamped marks on rim, including "GILL" and measure numbering.

Date: 1740-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: stamping (marking), casting (process), incising, pewter (tin alloy), tin alloy

GUSN: 3161

Accession Number: 1991.1342

Flower Brick

English delftware flower brick, of rectangular 'brick' shape with sunken top fitted with multiple holes outlined in blue, all sides decorated wtih chinoiserie-style landscape scenes executed in underglaze cobalt blue.

Date: 1750-1760

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, molding (forming), glazing (coating), tin glaze, underglazing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3162

Accession Number: 1991.1343

Nautical Painting of the Ship "Dredenot"

Painting of the ship "Dredenot". Oil on canvas, with carved wooden figures. The ship is flying the British flag and passing a spit of land, Lands End, England. A wooden board is affixed to the bottom edge of the canvas and has four sheets of yellowed paper attached to the center. The papers note wit...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), carving (processes)

GUSN: 3163

Accession Number: 1991.1347

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